Belt-fastening



(No Model.)

W, L. POTTER.

BELT FASTENING.

No. 270,117. Patented'Jan.2,1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\ WILSON L. POTTER, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

BELT-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,117, datedJanuary 2, 1883, Application filed October 26, 1882. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILsoN L. POTTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the countyot' Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Belt-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification. y

This invention relates to an improved beltfa-stening moreespecially adapted for use upon the class ofrubber and canvas belts; and it consists of the combination, with the contiguous ends of a belt, ot' a metallic plate provided with one or more rows of spurs arranged to come opposite each end ofthe belt. The spurs are adapted to be lorced through the belt, and to have their ends clinched by being bent down diagonally to have their points extend toward the contiguous ends of the belt. The spurs are malleable and of a true conical form, as shown, to enable them to penetrate the belt without rupturing or cutting the threads of its fabric.

In the drawings, Figure I is a plan view ot the fastener secured to one end of a belt. Fig. II is an end view of the same, and Fig. III is a plan view of the fastener as combined with a belt.

A is a metallic plate provided upon one face with the Spurs!) b b. The spurs b are arranged in oneor more transverse rows, and when more than one row is provided to come opposite one of contiguous belt ends the" rows are arranged,as seen in the drawings, to have one spur come opposite the interval between the spurs of the adjacent row. The spurs b are of configuration as seenin profile, Fig. II,

and, beingconical,would present the same appearance in any elevation. This gradual conesurface enables the spurs to be driven through the belt. without injury to any fabric forming part of it. When the plate A is laid over the contiguous ends B B of a belt and the spurs b forced through the belt the fastening is com pleted by clinching each projecting spur end; and it 'is essential in forming my improved fastening that each end should be turned,

cross-section of the spurs b not only-prevents injury to the cloth, but enables its end to be clinched in this diagonal direction.

In Fig. [II the turned-down ends of aplatefastener are shown, and it will be seen from the position of these turned-down ends that a large resistance is oli'ered to strain in either direction.

Now, having described my invention, what I claim is- The combination, with the contiguous ends of a belt, B, of the plate A, provided with the conical malleable spurs I), arranged-in rows relatively, as shown, and adapted to unite the plateA to the belt B by having their ends clinched by being bent diagonally toward the end of the belt, as set forth. I

- WlLSON L. POTTER.

Witnesses:

R. F. HYDE, H. A. GHAPIN. 

